commit 753ca4f312a4b26940e4731b4fa5dbbbbcc77e97
author Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Sat Nov 25 11:09:34 2006 -0800
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.osdl.org> Sat Nov 25 13:28:34 2006 -0800
tree bf0ca9aa882e50b681ec72e43998542472752ef6
parent a1b26c32af51d0fd82754bc06b495dd03c2f2d58

[PATCH] fix copy_process() error check

The return value of copy_process() should be checked by IS_ERR().

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

kernel/fork.c

diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 3da978e..8cdd3e7 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -1315,9 +1315,8 @@
 	struct pt_regs regs;
 
 	task = copy_process(CLONE_VM, 0, idle_regs(&regs), 0, NULL, NULL, 0);
-	if (!task)
-		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
-	init_idle(task, cpu);
+	if (!IS_ERR(task))
+		init_idle(task, cpu);
 
 	return task;
 }